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The massive financial cost of warfare
This is a lightly edited Haaretz report on the Iranian response to the US backed attack on Iran. Such details, important as they are, have not had much publicity because the Israeli military continues to censor and block information. 500 Missiles, 200 Interceptors, $1.5 Billion: Numbers Behind Iran’s Attacks on Israel The IDF reported 36 […]
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Barbara Bell (1939-2025)
July 1, 2025
A socialist, educator, researcher and activist died in Cape Town in her sleep in the early hours of Saturday, June 28 after a a debilitating illness. Co-founder, with husband Terry, of the primary division of the ANC school, Somafco, in Tanzania for the children of exiles, she qualified as a preschool teacher in Johannesburg and […]
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Settler violence cloaked by Gaza & Iran
June 27, 2025
Taking advantage of the war in Iran, settlers in the South Hebron Hills have stepped up their violent assaults on Palestinian communities in the area. A decision by an Israeli planning committee in the West Bank could lead to the destruction of all the remaining hamletsBy Gideon Levy, pictures by Alex Levac (Haaretz, 27/06/2025) In […]
Posted in: Sound Israeli journalism
Murdering the future
June 22, 2025
Murder is a very serious crime. And it is very clearly defined: to kill another person “with malice aforethought”. In other words, to plan to kill someone for whatever reason and then to carry out the intention is a serious violation. The same charge applies to those who pay or order someone else to carry […]
Posted in: Commentary
Planetary sacrifice for a Messiah?
June 20, 2025
Concerned about the religious fanaticism that apparently fuels Israeli expansionism and United States support for it, the Gaza carnage and now the assault on Iran, I started writing. But then an Item landed from the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz. Apart from a few minor points of difference, it says, basically what I wanted to say. So […]
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Israel: a sick lion, not a rising one
June 19, 2025
By Gideon Levy, Haaretz, 18/06/2025 The fate of the war now depends on the whims of a capricious and voluble American president. He bombs Iran; there might be a victory. He doesn’t bomb, and Israel will have embarked on another futile war, more superfluous and dangerous than all of its predecessors. The involvement of the […]
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Iran – another Israeli failure?
June 16, 2025
Gideon Levy’s view of the ‘war” on Iran (Haaretz, 15/06/25) Israelis like wars, especially when they begin. There has not been a war yet which Israel – the entire country – has not rooted for at its onset; there has yet to be a war – other than the 1973 Yom Kippur War – that […]
Posted in: Sound Israeli journalism
Apartheid & Zionism: the same fight
June 10, 2025
When the Afrikaner nationalists, with an outspokenly fascist core at their centre, began to to move down the authoritarian slide toward fascism, South Africa saw the emergence of the Black Sash in 1956. These were women whose conscience bound them to protest about the erosion of the few vestiges of democracy left in what had […]
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Terry Bell Writes 
July 3, 2025
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